Throughout this summer, the public will be able to watch a conservator at work as the St Louis Art Museum converts one of its galleries into a painting conservation laboratory. Conservator Mark Bockrath of Philadelphia will clean and retouch three large 18th-century landscapes by the French painter Hubert Robert (1733’“1808). Three paintings—The Obelisk, The Ruin and Fantastic View of Tivoli—are part of four landscapes commissioned from the painter during the 1780s. Curated by Judith Mann, curator of European Art to 1800, Reviving Antiquity: Restoring Hubert Robert’s Views of Ancient Ruins, supported by a grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, will be on view in gallery 205. To find out more, click here.

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